Around the nation

News from every state.

ALABAMA Huntsville: Police say a dispute over crab legs at a dinner buffet ended in a brawl that left two people facing misdemeanor charges.

ALASKA Anchorage: The international airport bearing the name of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens now has a statue of the late Republican.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The Heard Museum’s newly reopened exhibit “Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories” offers insights on Native children forced by the U.S. government into schools where they lost their language and culture. New features include student interviews.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: A lawmaker has proposed legislation that would cut off state funding to cities that don’t cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Researchers say nearly 200,000 people live in, work in or pass through the state’s volcanic hazard zones daily, and there’s a 16 percent probability of an eruption in the next 30 years.

COLORADO Denver: A gold company claims the Environmental Protection Agency is mismanaging the cleanup of nearly 50 mining sites in the state.

CONNECTICUT Simsbury: Officials with Simsbury High School say staff have held group discussions with students, and administrators have participated in cultural competency training, since two students were seen on social media in what appeared to be blackface.

DELAWARE Dover: The Great Inflatable Race, a nationwide touring inflatable obstacle fun run, will land at the DE Turf Sports Complex near Frederica on Aug. 3.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: A student-led group in Montgomery County, Maryland, has announced plans for its second walkout for gun control. WTOP-FM reports Moco Students for Change plans for walkout participants to leave class at 10 a.m. March 14, meet outside the White House and march to the Capitol after 17 minutes of silence.

FLORIDA Gulf Breeze: A family of six orangutans arrived at the Gulf Breeze Zoo last month. It’s a homecoming for two of the orangutans, the mother-daughter duo of Sara and Indah.

GEORGIA Savannah: The federal agency overseeing the deepening of Savannah’s busy shipping channel is testing whether pumping oxygen into the waterway will give enough of a boost to help fish breathe.

HAWAII Hilo: Officials say they plan to reopen a popular cavelike attraction in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park later this year. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the Thurston Lava Tube has been closed since the Kilauea volcano eruption last May.

IDAHO Boise: Legislation to create a “pet-friendly” license plate, with the money going to pay for spaying or neutering pets owned by low-income families, is heading to the full Senate.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Officials will be monitoring flooding in southern Illinois and preparing to deploy assistance if requested. Officials are bracing for rising Mississippi and Ohio river waters this weekend.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Indianapolis International Airport says a record of more than 9.4 million passengers flew out of the airport in 2018, more than 620,000 more than in 2017.

IOWA Des Moines: The state’s cold, snowy winter has been especially difficult on livestock producers, who have often struggled just to reach their animals.

KANSAS Kansas City: Congress has approved a historical designation for the Quindaro Ruins, a Civil Warera port of entry into the state and stop on the Underground Railroad.

KENTUCKY Rowena: The Wolf Creek Dam near Lake Cumberland is functioning normally, despite record rainfall and pressure from the swollen lake.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The Old State Capitol is opening a new exhibit commemorating 25 years since the historic building was restored.

MAINE Rockport: The largest fishermen’s trade show in New England is taking place this week. The Maine Fishermen’s Forum is slated for the Samoset Resort in Rockport from Thursday to Saturday.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Just weeks after a school shooting in the city, the school board has reversed its initial rejection of legislation that would arm school police officers.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A postdoctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a project that can analyze brain activity and sort users into a Hogwarts house. MIT Media Lab student Nataliya Kosmyna says her “Thinking Cap” is made of noninvasive electrodes that capture a person’s brain activity, and it uses machine learning to detect what a user is imagining. The Boston Globe reports the electrodes are encased in a wizard hat modeled on the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter series.

MICHIGAN Lansing: State officials are taking applications for the fifth round of funding to support work along the Iron Belle Trail.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Transit officials envision 200,000 electric vehicles cruising down the state’s roads in about a decade. The 2030 goal is part of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s plan to tackle climate change and move away from fossil fuels.

MISSISSIPPI Columbus: City officials say they will seek to rebuild the former Hunt High School, a tornado-damaged school campus that housed an alternative school.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: The state Supreme Court has extended legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in two separate cases dealing with the rights of workers and students.

MONTANA Billings: Five bull bison from Yellowstone National Park have been transferred to the Fort Peck Reservation.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Officials say librarians have been closely inspecting each item checked back into the city’s eight branches, committed to keeping out any bedbugs.

NEVADA Las Vegas: The Park MGM Las Vegas will host pop music icon Janet Jackson for a 15-show residency starting May 17.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The state House has given preliminary approval to a bill legalizing recreational marijuana.

NEW JERSEY Asbury Park: The Sea.Hear.Now music, surf and art festival this September has added a long list of acts to the lineup, including Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Cat Power, the B-52s, Bad Religion and Sharon Van Etten.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: A lawmaker wants the state to give Hispanic Civil War soldiers their due for helping the Union win a battle in New Mexico. State Sen. Linda Lopez is pushing a proposal that could create a plan to erect a memorial at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.

NEW YORK New York: The American Museum of Natural History has big plans for its 150th anniversary. The slate of events starting next month includes exhibits, an anniversary website and a new space show in the planetarium.

NORTH CAROLINA Hickory: Gerber says its newest spokesbaby is Kairi Yang, a spunky 1-year-old with “the look of wonder in her eyes,” born to a local Hmong immigrant family.

NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: A man is accused of stealing a semi loaded with Oreo cookies.

OHIO Loudonville: Guy Gilchrist, who helped create the daily comic strip “The Muppets,” will share his talents at the Ohio Theatre for events Friday and Saturday.

OKLAHOMA Guthrie: Musicians and music enthusiasts are working to help a renowned fiddler and owner of a popular instrument shop after a weekend fire gutted the business. The blaze destroyed Double Stop Fiddle Shop & Music Hall and the adjacent Furrow Flowers & Gifts.

OREGON Portland: The tiny Borax Lake chub has come back from the brink of extinction, and federal officials say they will propose removing protections for the species of fish under the Endangered Species Act.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: The state Department of Transportation plans to issue so-called Real IDs starting Friday.

RHODE ISLAND Narragansett: A proposed $2 billion wind farm planned for federal waters off Martha’s Vineyard has received key approval from regulators in the state.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: Just over a year after opening, the city’s first and only cat cafe is looking for a new home, as the owners of the Organic Cat Cafe have realized they need more space and walk-by traffic.

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: A Hughes County ranching family says a train operated by the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad started a prairie fire that damaged their entire ranching operation last summer.

TENNESSEE Nashville: A Belmont professor has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a study that seeks to digitally replicate the acoustics of historic structures, including Music Row studios.

TEXAS Austin: A bill introduced by state Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos, a Democrat from the Dallas area, calls for a “Selena Quintanilla-Perez Day,” making the Queen of Tejano’s birthday, April 16, a state holiday.

UTAH Salt Lake City: A bid to ban marriage for 15-year-olds has cleared its first hurdle in the state House.

VIRGINIA Norfolk: A brewery says its new beer is “magically ridiculous.” Smartmouth Brewing Company will release “Saturday Morning,” a limited-edition IPA with marshmallows, at noon Saturday at its tasting room.

WASHINGTON Olympia: A proposal for universal, all-grade sex education has passed the state Senate after extensive debate.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A bill that would revive film production tax credits in the state has passed the House of Delegates.

WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Humans may be fed up with the snow this winter, but one animal is reveling in it – the American marten. The snow also makes it easier for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to track the marten population.

WYOMING Cheyenne: State lawmakers disagree on whether unintended consequences might result from a bill that would make it easier to terminate parental rights when sexual assault results in childbirth.